Bottle-stopper.



3 BROWN, JR BOTTLE STOPPER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1908.

Patented June 8, 1909.

/pl-nesre UNITED STATES PATENT res.

ROBERT BROWN, JR, OF ILFOBD, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO N. R. CAPSULESYNDICATE LIMITED, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BOTTLE-STOPPEB.

No. 924,532. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 8, 1909.

Application filed January 10, 1908. Serial No. 410,178.

Through this plug and through the top of the ca 0'. passes a screw 0 ofmetal, glass or the li c. This screw 0 has at the top a milled-head dand at the lower end a disk e of suitable material which may or may notbe rigidly attached to the lower end of said screw 0. This washer ordisk 6 rests on a stopper or valve f, provided with a stem g. This valvef rests on a cork ring it in the neck of the bottle.

The cap a is notched around its lower edge at j where it rests on thetop of the neck of the bottle. In the spaces notched or cut out of thecap a a little of the metal is returned at min a horizontal direction,so that the cap a is held in its place by a tubular capsule lc.Thiscapsule which forms the second or temporary portion of the device isby preference of light tin or one of its alloys, such as capsule metal.It is made as a sleeve 0 en at the top and bottom, see Fig. 4, but t etop part is constructed so as to fit over the cap a, being flared out atq and provided with two or more apertures r. This capsule or sleevebeing brought down somewhat tightly on to the small returns an aroundthe cap a, the latter is held firmly on the mouth of the bottle and thecapsule 7c and cap a together constitute a covering device whichprotects the valve f. The capsule is or outer cover after being drawndown is pressed by hand or power machine so that it assumes the shapeand conformation of the neck of the bottle and cannot be removedtherefrom Without destroying or distorting the said cap- To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT BROWN, Jr., a subject of the King of GreatBritain and Ireland, residing at Ilford, in the county of Essex,England, have invented Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a stoppering device for reventing a bottlebeing fraudulently re ed. Numerous suggestions have been made to achievethis object but therequirements of the trades in which 7 such deviceswould be used are such that it has not been easy to meet them. Inaddition to the device being such as to practicallyprevent a bottlebeing refilled, it must be applicable to bottles having ordinary necks,must be cheap, and not involve the destruction of the bottle whenemptied.

The stoppering device hereinafter described is so constructed that themore expensive parts can be used repeatedly, the only perishable partbeing the holding portion, which may be constructed of tin, tin alloy,soft metal, or other suitable material and forms a capsule whichprevents the device being tampered with without the capsule beingdamaged and an indication of fraudulent manipulation thus given, andupon its removal for the purpose of enabling the bottle to be refilledat the distillery or the like place, can be melted, remade or otherwisedealt with without serious or prohibitive loss to the owner.

In order that my said invention may be understood I will proceed todescribe the same with reference to the drawing accompanying thisspecification in which:-

Figure 1 is an elevation of the appliance as it would appear when fixedin position on a bottle; Fig. 2 shows a plan of same; Fig. 3 shows avertical section of the appliance on the top of the neck of the bottle.Fig. 4 shows an elevation of the holding portion. Fig. 5 is a similarview to Fig. 3 of a modification.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 4:, a is the part of the appliance which is of amore or less permanent character and which can be used for a number ofbottles one after the other. This part 0 consists of a cylindrical capof metal or other suitable material of approximately the diameter of thetop of the neck of the bottle for which it is to be used. The cap a hasa plug 5 of cork in the inside.

that it has been removed from the bottle for the purpose of fraudulentlyrefilling the same.

In some cases I may make the cap a of vulcanite, or other like materialor composition. In using the device when the bottle is filled the valvef is dropped into position in the cork ring h, the cap a is then put onto the top of the bottle. The capsule 7c is then dropped over the cap0., the top of the said ca sule resting on the returns m. The capsu e isthen pressed into shape at the outer part of the bottle neck. Whenliquid is required to be poured out from the bottle the milled head (1is turned so as to raise the disk or washer e by means of the screw 0and when the bottle is tilted the valve f comes away from its seatingallowing the liquid to pass around it, through the notches j, past thesule suificiently to enable a person to know r in Fig. 5.

cap a and through one or more of the aper- 1 air respectively, a capadapted to fit within tures 1". and be engaged by the upper end of thehold- The oa a in Fi 5 can be made to snu l in aortion and externallv o)erated means o o y a l fit to flange m in order to maintain said capcarried by the cap for retaining the valve in a raised position when thevalve retaining 1 upon its seating.

means is raised, or if desired the cap a can be loosely held Within theflange m in which event it will be forced into its raised position i 2.The combination with a bottle of a seat- I when ressure is a )lied tothe valve. l )ortion adaited to be fixed ti 'htl around P Pl 1 l I s .3

ing therein below the mouth thereot a valve I may employ in place of thereturn orbentthe bottle neck and having apertures for the out portionsof the metal m (Fig. 3) a ring or escape of liquid and entrance oi airrespecledge on which the top part 01' the capsule tively a cap adaptedto lit within the upper rests. Such an arrangement is shown in end ofthe holding portion and having an. ex- Fig. 5, m being the ring orledge. In this ternal projection adapted to engage with the example, thetop of the cap a is thickened J inner surface of the top oi the holdingporand used as a nut for the screw and is not I tion, a screw passingthrough a tapped hole filled with cork. The cap a need not rest on i inthe cap having a milled head at its upper the top of the bottle neck butmay terminate in the outward flange or ring at m, as shown ithdrawal ol'the screw.

l Signed. at 14 Jewry street in the city of London England thistwenty-fourth day of December 1907.

W hat I claim is 2 1. The combination with a bottle of a seating thereinbelow the mouth thereof, a valve adapted to become seated thereon, aholding i portion adapted to be fixed tightly around I lVitncsses: thebottle neck and having suitable aper- I S. A. ABBOTT, tures for theescape of liquid and entrance of ARTHUR Vv'oosNiiii.

ROBERT B HOWN, Jii.

adapted to become seated thereon a holding I end and a plate at itslower end to prevent

